User talk:Nythar

Removal image requests

Hi, I noticed you removed numerous image requests. I noticed this for a couple of pages on my watchlist and the requests there seem reasonable to me. Please explain your reason of removals. --Altenmann >talk 18:52, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

@Altenmann: Thanks for allowing me to explain myself. Per Template:Image requested, the image requested template is "not a general-purpose "no image present" indicator ... Editors placing this template on a talk page should provide information about what images or photographs are wanted". Apparently in 2014, a user added these requests to around 50,000 talk pages, to the talk pages of (apparently) every single Iranian village article that lacked an image (see this category as an example). So, while some of these requests can be viewed as valid (we don't always explain our reasons for adding the imagereq template to talk pages), your average user at least doesn't add them to thousands upon thousands of talk pages en masse using the same edit summary, disregarding the usage guidelines in the process. The massive number of image requests dilutes the template's importance (it isn't intended to be added en masse), and also goes against the usage guideline. Also according to those guidelines, Template:Improve images should be added instead as a ""no image present" indicator". Nythar (💬-🍀) 22:53, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Abbu2005 (06:29, 12 July 2026)

Hello how could I add my guru wikipedia --Abbu2005 (talk) 06:29, 12 July 2026 (UTC)

@Abbu2005, could you please clarify your question? Regards, Nythar (💬-🍀) 06:38, 17 July 2026 (UTC)

Question from Unggrabb (17:25, 13 July 2026)

Hello Nythar Added the tag to the top of the page, hope that i did the right thing, am a bit new to this all.

Best --Mabior (talk) 17:25, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

@Unggrabb, to mark your draft for review, click the blue "Resubmit" button located on the banner at the top of the page. Regards, Nythar (💬-🍀) 06:35, 17 July 2026 (UTC)

Question from Stereowavey (18:31, 18 July 2026)

How does STL work exactly, I'm facing an issue where a Station on the PRT, (Potomac, Red Line) suddenly Unlinked from the pages of the line and adjacent stations, despite the page not being deleted, and I don't know how to get it back while staying in the STL format. --Stereowavey (talk) 18:31, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello @Stereowavey, could you link me to the pages involved so I can check them out? Regards, Nythar (💬-🍀) 20:51, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

Red Line (Pittsburgh), <- Line the station is on

Dormont Junction station / Stevenson Station <- Adjacent Stations

Potomac Station <- Station that should be linked in question Stereowavey (talk) 23:11, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

@Stereowavey: Bit of a lengthy technical explanation but here goes. On the page Red Line (Pittsburgh), the link to Potomac station used to be Potomac (PAT station), which redirects to the correct page, until someone replaced that with the stl template, going from [[Potomac (PAT station)|Potomac]] to {{stl|PRT|Potomac}}. {{stl}} invokes Template:Station link, and PRT refers to Pittsburgh Regional Transit. PRT's page is located here: Module:Adjacent stations/Pittsburgh Regional Transit. I believe the station names you'll find on the module page are placed there because of some specific issue that needs an override from the default. The default is simply the name of the station followed by "station". For example, you won't find Stevenson station and Castle Shannon station at the PRT module page because the titles of both articles end in "station", even though, just like Potomac, they are listed in the Red Line page as {{stl|PRT|Stevenson}} and {{stl|PRT|Castle Shannon}}, respectively. This is because the module automatically takes care of this: "%1 station", covers anything you place into the template {{stl|PRT|station-name}}. It automatically adds "station" at the end of station-name, and links you to that page. Unless the page's title does not simply end in "station". For instance, you'll find "Gateway" in the module page because the article's title is "Gateway station (Pittsburgh)", which differs from the default.

For this specific case (Potomac), since it's title also doesn't match the default, it is listed in the module page, but incorrectly so. The title, being "Potomac station (Pittsburgh Regional Transit)", should not have been listed as ["Potomac"] = pittsburgh, in the module page, because pittsburgh is defined as "%1 station (Pittsburgh)", which you can find at the top of the list. Meaning, pittsburgh automatically makes the title become this: station-name station (Pittsburgh). The solution here is either to rename the article to "Potomac station (Pittsburgh)" or edit the module page directly. Regards, Nythar (💬-🍀) 03:33, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

Question from CreativeDAG (10:18, 24 July 2026)

Hello. First time I have created account. I would like to learn how to edit articles, how to add my write up.

Thank you --CreativeDAG (talk) 10:18, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

@CreativeDAG, to edit an article, all you have to do is click on the Edit button, and then once you've made your edit, hit Save. As a new user, you may not be able to edit popular articles that might be locked, but you still have millions of unlocked articles you can improve. Let me know if you plan on creating articles or if you have general rules you're wondering about. Regards, Nythar (💬-🍀) 05:31, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

Question from Khaled taha amr (04:49, 27 July 2026)

مدرسة الحفاة --Khaled taha amr (talk) 04:49, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

Question from Iwueze on Wikipedia:Gratis versus libre (13:24, 27 July 2026)

help me --Iwueze (talk) 13:24, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

@Iwueze, could you please specify? Regards, Nythar (💬-🍀) 23:07, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

Question from Scripta Liberans (18:31, 27 July 2026)

Could you please have a look at the page for Sir Christopher Seton, and let me know what I need to do to get the inline citations for the “Seton” article in the 1911 EB to appear as [1] instead of [1] and [2]? --Scripta Liberans (talk) 18:31, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

@Scripta Liberans, <ref> {{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Seton}} </ref> appears twice in the source code of that page. When you view the page in reading mode, they appear as references [1] and [2]. Just because these references are identical doesn't mean that Wikipedia is going to display them as a single reference in the list at the bottom of the page. We always have to do this ourselves when we want to use a source multiple times in a single page, by giving the first instance a name, and then using that name in all other locations where we want to place that reference. To solve this, if you want [1] to appear twice on that page, you'll have to change the first instance to this: <ref name="EB1911">{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Seton}}</ref>, and then replace the second instance of that reference with this: <ref name="EB1911"/>

This way the ref list at the bottom of the page will contain just the one entry and will list instances a and b, while the article itself will show [1] and [1] instead of [1] and [2]. Please note that I chose the name appearing between the quotes as "EB1911". You can select any other name you believe is appropriate, such as "Seton EB1911", and everything should run smoothly. Regards, Nythar (💬-🍀) 23:23, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for your rapid response! I'll try it out now. Scripta Liberans (talk) 23:29, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

Looks like it worked. Thank you for your help! Scripta Liberans (talk) 23:38, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

Question from Sagasonsaga (09:31, 29 July 2026)

I like to made edits and changes to the main page of my employer, Kibong'oto Hospital. Do you have to disclose this? --Sagasonsaga (talk) 09:31, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

@Sagasonsaga, it is expected that editors with a conflict of interest should disclose their affiliation with the article they are editing. You can do this by typing a simple statement on your userpage or by placing this infobox: {{UserboxCOI|1=Kibong'oto Hospital}}. Regards, Nythar (💬-🍀) 12:23, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. Sagasonsaga (talk) 13:01, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

Question from Mocean daniel on Radu Negru (10:24, 2 August 2026)

Bună ziua vreau să im caut fratele Mocean Daniel născut 2013 august 30 --Mocean daniel (talk) 10:24, 2 August 2026 (UTC)